2016年7月16日 星期六

Old master, remastered: a new Rembrandt

The genius of Rembrandt van Rijn—who was born on July 15th 1606—is hard to describe. A team of Rembrandt experts, scientists and engineers turned instead to data, feeding 346 of the painter’s works into a computer, which used “deep learning” algorithms to extract subject matter, geometric patterns and facial proportions. These particulars have been synthesised to create a unique new portrait